public_comment: "There is uncertainty in the literature about the classification of Nambikwaran languages and which varieties may be separate languages or are only dialects of a single language. It is also difficult to determine how language variety names match similar names among the sources.
Campbell (2012:99) has 5 Nambikwaran languages. Lowe (1999:269): “Nambiquara family consists of three languages”: Southern Nambiquara dialect complex, Mamainde/Nakarothe, and Sabanes. Price (1978) has three branches, Northern Nambikwaran, Southern Nambikwaran, and Sabané. The Northern Nambikwaran members are: Mamaindê, Negarotê, Tawandê, Latundê, and Lakondê. The Southern branch is divided in four dialect groups: Manduca (with the variants Siwaisu, Hunkutesu, Niyahlosu); Campo (with Kithãulhu, Wakalitesu, Halotesu, Sawentesu); Guaporé (with Hahãintesu, Waikisu, Alãntesu, Wasusu); and Sararé (also called Katitãulhu).
Ethnologue (Lewis et al. 2016) has 6 languages: Sabanê [sae], Lakondê [lkd], Latundê [ltn], Mamaindé [wmd], Tawandê [xtw], and Nambikuára, Southern [nab].
Note that Negarotê has sometimes been considered an independent Nambikwaran language; however, Anonby and Eberhard (2008) found 90% intelligibility between Negarotê and Mamaindê, showing Negarotê is not a distinct language, but a variant of Mamaindê. (Anonby, Stan and David Eberhard. 2008. "A Survey of Three Northern Nambiquara Groups: The Mamaindê, Negarotê, and Latundê." SIL Electronic Survey Report 2008-21.)
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code_id:3990,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "330",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2007",
public_comment: "Mamaindé: 330 (2007) (2014)
Ethnologue distinguishes Lakondê [lkd], Latundê [ltn], Mamaindé [wmd], and Tawandê [xtw], members of their Kithãulh branch; for many other scholars, these are all dialects of a single language (Lacondê [lkd] and Latundê [ltn] are treated as alernate names for or varieties of Yalapmunxte).
Ethnologue (2014) lists Lakondê 1 speaker (2007); Latundê 10 speakers (2010 S. Anonby), ethnic population: 20 (2010 S. Anonby).
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